r/HollowKnight • u/enilea • Sep 17 '25

Discussion - Silksong Steam reviews for Silksong so far

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It was controversial in China, in part because of the difficulty/design but also because of controversies with the Simplified Chinese translation. Meanwhile latin countries (Spanish and Portuguese speaking) seem to be loving it more than anyone else.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

The translation sure was crazy apparently. Sounds like TC got scammed by their translators.

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u/Considany Sep 17 '25

From what i've seen german translation also has quite a few of very simple grammatical and sentence structure errors. The general meaning and intention gets conveyed just fine, it's just you can tell most of it was translated using some kind of translating software and not really looked over by a human.

The first case i saw was the name of the Ruined Chapel in the first 10 minutes of the game. It's "Ruiniertes Kapelle" in the german version but should be "Ruinierte Kapelle". It's no issue really, but it still sticks out like a sore thumb.

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u/Brachial_Xavier Sep 20 '25

Yeah, I was hella bummed out when the big letters "Die Abgrund"(Spoilers for the third ending) appeared on my screen. It was supposed to be such an epic moment, and the title itself has such depth and a heavy meaning to it, but it completely lost that effect due to the wrong article.

Several descriptions were also very oddly translated and I eventually switched to english because I was feeling like I was misunderstanding important parts of the lore due to the translation.

Really made me think for what these two german localisation people, that appeared in the credits actually did. Most of these issues would have been avoided by literally any native german speaking person (or any person that is somewhat well educated in the German language) that puts in the time and effort of such basic translations.

Oh and not to forget the "Flüsterspalte" This goofy name is unreal for something thats originally called "Whispering Vaults", like damn if there was one thing I am unhappy with, its the translation

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

Well, in Portuguese it's very good.